Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:16:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: James Snow <snow@teardrop.org> Cc: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting WPA to work on ath(4) Message-ID: <20050623211620.GA65274@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050623204325.GA72574@teardrop.org> References: <20050621205048.GA61951@freebie.xs4all.nl> <050622074135F.25017@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <20050623202416.GA64730@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050623204325.GA72574@teardrop.org>
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:43:25PM -0400, James Snow wrote.. > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:24:16PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:51:01AM +0800, Tai-hwa Liang wrote.. > > > > > > Did you enable WME on the AP? I remembered that AP would deauth. your > > I also had to disable WME on my ath(4) interface to get the AP to stop > freaking out. How do you disable WME? [ I feel stranded in a maze of acronyms, all different :-) ] > > My AP does not have such a selection option. > > Don't know if mine did or not, but I only had to disable it on the > ath(4) interface to solve my problem. Ah, ok. > > The situation seems to have improved now that I have enabled SSID > > broadcasting on my AP, and at the same time removed the > > > > scan_ssid=1 > > > > from my wpa_supplicant.conf > > I also had to enable SSID broadcasting on my AP to get this setup to > work. I didn't leave scan_ssid=1 in my .conf file, so I don't know what > effect it had. I noticed today that wpa_supplicant renegotiated multiple times even with SSID broadcasting enabled. So it was most definitely not the full fix to enable broadcasting. > > > 80211debug +debug +crypto +auth > > > > Is this a seperate tool I need to get from somewhere? > > It's in /usr/src/tools/tools/ath. It's been very useful for me. Found it, thanks for the pointer. > You might also try 'ifconfig ath0 list scan' while wpa_supplicant is > running and with SSID broadcasting turned _off_ on the AP. I'd be > curious to see if you have the same problem that I had. (An empty SSID > string.) > > Hope that helps. > > > -Snow --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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